A shared experience

Subjective vs. objective emotions

The view of the self as independent in individualistic cultures leads to the perception of emotions as a unique personal experience.
The emotional reality is therefore taken as subjective: different people are expected to have different emotional worlds, and to react in different ways to the same experiences.
On the contrary, in collectivistic cultures, emotions are experienced out of relationships.
They reflect the outer, rather than the inner world and are therefore taken as objective: it is assumed that all people experience the same emotion in a given social situation.

-this shows that the audience at the performance experienced the same emotion even though they may name it differently it is the same emotion they experienced